Watch the all-new trailer for Shōgun below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Shōgun follows “the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai; John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko (Anna Sawai), a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and allegiance.

Inspired by the true actions of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the most powerful daimyo in all of Japan’s history and English navigator and samurai William Adams, Shōgun offers audiences an incredibly epic canvas for narrative and spectacle, and the team at FX has truly captured the spirit and character of the original text. The three show leads, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis and Anna Sawai, bring an incredible presence to the screen with their distinctive roles, and each will have a core element to play in realising this incredible piece of narrative.

Go further into the production and behind-the-scenes action of Shōgun here:

Shōgun is an utterly epic piece of narrative television, and audiences will be spellbound by its presence when it arrives on Disney+ on February 27.

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Watch the full trailer for Shōgun below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, and he soon recruits English sailor John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) to his cause, in what becomes a life-changing event for Blackthorne as he walks the path to become a samurai.

FX is bringing Shōgun to audiences in a new limioted series, and it’s clear that the network and showrunners Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks have spared no expense in recreating the Japanese samurai culture of the 1600s. The detail and style of this work is utterly immense, and Kondo and Marks have captured the intensity and passion of this masterwork of fiction.

Not only does the trailer showcase an incredible samurai world filled with classes of courage, honour and death, but it also highlights an incredible principle cast. Leading the series is reknown Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshi Toranaga, a cunning and calculating daimyo who sees his destiny to become the absolute ruler of Japan, and his strength of character is felt in the presence of the new trailer. British actor Cosmo Jarvis makes for a spot on presence as the series lead viewpoint character, Pilot Major John Blackthorne, an intrepid English sailor who finds himself stranded in Japan, and who is called into service by Toranaga and begins to walk the way of the samurai warrior. Finally actress Anna Sawai steals the attention of your focus as Toda Mariko, a woman in service to Toranaga and who eventually becomes a lover to Blackthorne, and his teacher and confident in the ways of the Japanese culture, but who cannot escape her destiny or service to Toranaga. It’s just utterly epic stuff, and FX’s Shōgun is packed full of everything you could want it to have.

Dashing political intrigue, violent battles, sensual loves and an epic sense of loyalty and honour are deeply present in Shōgun, and this is a series that audiences are really going to want to get behind. It’s clear that this is far and away going to be one of 2024’s biggest television events and you won’t want to miss it when Shōgun arrives in Disney+ in February 2024.

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